Lock & Key (King & Crown Book 1) by Clara Coulson

Author:Clara Coulson [Coulson, Clara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Knite and Day Publishing
Published: 2018-01-31T22:00:00+00:00

10

Liam

Liam should’ve known better than to think they’d get off easy, that this little plot would go down without a hitch. But it wasn’t until the Cherokee was upside-down, sliding across the parking lot of an abandoned factory, that he realized just how vastly he’d underestimated the drive of Advent 9 to recover the test subject they’d lost. And then the SUV slammed into the metal wall of the factory with a deafening boom, and all Liam could think about as he was wrenched sideways into the driver’s side door, arm smacking cracked glass, head striking the hard frame, were those poor people in the compact car that Marta had just blown up with a fire spell.

Then Liam’s awareness shorted out. For how long? He had no clue.

When it returned, he was hanging awkwardly, tangled in his seatbelt. Blood dripped from a laceration on his head and collected on the dimpled roof of the SUV. His arms, one broken, hung limply against the dented dashboard. He stared at the steering wheel for several seconds, trying to figure out why his mouth was full of copper and his entire body hurt. And then it came back to him: He and Kat had been returning to his house after the meeting with Auguste Vanderhall at Patterson’s. When, out of nowhere, Marta materialized in front of them and started slinging magic.

They’d had no warning. They weren’t ready.

We should’ve been, he thought wearily.

He spit out the glob of blood in his mouth and retracted his unbroken arm, searching for the release on his seatbelt. Liam didn’t dare look to the right, where Kat had been, because he knew she was no longer there. Marta had jumped onto the Cherokee as it was spinning through the air, punched through the window, and hauled Kat out, leaving Liam to die in the crash. He wasn’t valuable to A9. He was just in the way.

But Kat…He had to help Kat. He couldn’t let them take her back to that goddamn lab.

So he braced his legs against the roof of the vehicle, unclipped his seatbelt, and dropped into a crouch that sent waves of pain radiating through his body. Hissing, he brought his broken arm to his chest and tucked it into his half-open jacket to keep it secure, then he felt around in his pockets until he found his knife. He knew the A9 goons would have bigger, better weapons, but he wasn’t a one-trick pony. He flicked his earring, tuning up his senses, activated the ring on his pinky finger to drown out the pain so he wouldn’t lose his ability to concentrate, and then leaned back and kicked the broken windshield right out of its slot.

The glass shattered as it hit the asphalt.

Liam waited for two seconds, took a deep breath, and leaped out of the vehicle.

Someone fired an automatic at him immediately, but he was ready. He dodged to the left and swept his foot through the layer of dirt that covered the abandoned lot, kicking up a thick cloud of debris.

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